Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), August 26, 1981, p. 2

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Acton Progs Wednesday Aug 1981 BUI with throe of bis restored Model T Fords Lett to right are Touring Model T refttored after being in a bam for years a IBM Doctor Coupe that 34 years In a hay mow where Square One now stands and a 1916 Touring Model Treauembled from several places In one barn race BUI says there only two or three left In the world A bright racing red Merc body speedster one of left world wide is another favorite and sports a souped up motor Still In the shop of professional restorer Dave Watkina of Milton la a vehicle Bill describes as a very pretty car a coupelet one of the first convertibles built In 1914 which Ford hoped was a car clean enough for women to drive Neighbor Hans Kuechler is also another helping hand Another prized find is a Model Ford with the serial number on It indicating It was the first model of Its kind Ford ever made Bill points out that moat people don t know Ford designed cars with all the letters of the alp habet starting with A and working his way down to his most successful Some cars never got off the drawing board but they were all conceived The popular economical Ford retailed for as little as 825 in 1909 and went DOWN in price believable Ian it as Ford made more assembly line cars By a Model could be purchased for as the Ford plant spat cars out at a record breaking one every six minutes Ford s first assembly line consisted of teams of men travelling from ear to car until Ford devised a method of pulling car chassis by ropes past building teams Today vintage Model T sell for to Getting parts for restoration can be a problem but Bill says car enthusiasts generally other All Model T parts were interchangeable which does make things easier Bill switches parts around to make cars more authentic How ever always on the lookout for bits and pieces and finds them In unlikely places Business and dogs Bill and bis wife Jackie raise Great Danes get In the way of showing the old cars But Bill manages to attend Milton Steam Show in the fall and the annual Ford in August Little vintage joke Da you think the horse will survive the Ford Not if it gets in its way Bill is making sure Model T Fords do survive BeardmoreUnion talks progressing Talks between a of Canada Packers and Local of United Food and Commercial Workers Union ore progressing well favorably according local president Bill Spielvogcl He said negotiation sessions arc planned for this The last contract ran out July so workers have been without a new deal then but that is no problem Splelvogel said Profiles with Jennifer Although Bill is a quarter century under conventional retiring age he planning for it now His garage is filled to the rafters with old Model T Ford vintage cars in various stages of decay excuse me restoration Bill going to keep busy when he not behind the counter at Acton Pharmacy anymore He s lifetime of repair ahead of him don t ho replies when how many vintage cars he has but believes the num reaches Judging from the of his gar ageworkshop and the stacked up car parts say he has morecars than old Henry ever made I ve bought the cars I want now and can take the time to restore them Bill comments He adds that the Investment is sound as vintage cars Just keep appreciating in value Bill been tinkering with vehicles since he was a pup My father was in the construction business so 1 always had a wrench or something in my hand says recalling getting his own car at age a hand from brother Ken another car buff That car turned out to be one of the first hotrods in Toronto after Bill fixed it up and Ken drove it The Yundt brothers be came adept at tinkering with cars buying and selling them My hearts in mechanical things Bill agrees The Model T was the car of my dad youth says Bill explaining his love for the classic fam cars I got my first Model 10 years ago when youve driven one you 11 find there noth ing else like it Some of Bill favorite cars those completely restored or at least partially restored include an Ames body speedster built for Henry Ford to Acton Agricultural Society president Brian drew the A tickets Saturday morning winners Da mining vouchers from Longfield was the Nielsens Family winner of the weekly Cleaners Family draw for Saturday Shoes Acton Dell and Wally Gordon Mill Superior Shoe Repair St won merchant bonus vouchers from Family Cleaners Acton Dell and Acton Bowling en Lanes Lynne Robert up to anything son l Acton went interesting these home with vouchers days Tell the town by call Ed s In N Out and Acton ing On the Lea veil Photo and Camera 8532010 or shopper con- Acton firm helps in search for body Nell is Construction of 1 Acton has been Involved in the search for a body allegedly dumped into Kelso Lake A Toronto woman re ported lo Metro police she witnessed a murder and saw the body being dumped into the lake near Milton Police put a guard on the woman but soon after dropped the protection Only when the woman and her young daughter house did police resume the guard The town- house is owned by Lady Iris second cousin of Queen Elizabeth The woman insisted the body had been put in a culvert near Lake so The police set about draining the culvert which connects with the lake Construction helped build a dyke to hold back Kelso water while search teams hunted for the body So far nothing has turned up except the bone of an animal The culvert is filled with silt which police must work through Huge pumps capable of handling 6 gallons of water an are on the scene but if one of the lumps should fall police the culvert will have only secends to get out Police estimate the search has so far cost and could higher with no guaran tee a body exists The woman could be charged with public mis chief police say Corie Denny enjoys her corn at the Churchill Community Church wiener Corn roast Saturday night Caravan Stage Co going through area A member theatre group the Caravan Stage Co Is travelling through North and this week with their five wagons and ID horses Tl group from Brit Columbia Is on a 16 week tour of Southern Ontario and are travell this week from Fer gus to Brampton In both Brampton Toronto they ore giving per formances of their mus ical comedy Horseplay Thoy left Fergus Mon day morning and camped at the Heyden farm RR north of Mon day night They were planning to stop Tuesday night in North and go through today Wednesday They plan to be in Brampton going into the city from with a police escort Thursday Icrnoon Spokesperson for the group Beverly Christie said If icy have been stopping overnight at farms throughout the province and found people are Just great about letting them camp overnight They have horses pulling the wagons as well as seven light horses which are used to escort the wagons They cover aoout 12 miles a day and are travelling on back roads TheCaravanStageCo was born 10 years ago and started as a travelling puppet show with one wagon Revised Ladies Section fair list inserted today Inserted in today a Free Press is a revised of the Ladies Section for the Acton Fall air prize list of the fair book inserted in last week paper YORK 500 smooth or peanut butter BRAVO plain spaghetti sauce KENT frozen 125 orange juice 65 oz chunk light tuna HEINZ 32 kego ketchup Prices effective August 26 27 CfltCnMB poo cream whole com With pork ROVALE on paper towta 139 139 79 149 59 139 139 giant detergent BUCK DIAMOND single Canadian process beef ravioli Scop onpors lav A flavour crystals NO NAME IB DIETRICH WESTON fltod bun MONARCH 3 flavour cnickvn coMkip CHOCK FUU0NUTS jar Instant toff 129 79 229 129 j95 79 99 99 Fresh Produce arrives daffy at the lowest possible prices Grade A Fresh 34 lb average CHICKENS CHICKE fresh meaty SIDE SPARE RIBS SWEET SOUR RIBS fresh ground MEDIUM GROUND BEEF Maple Leaf 2 3 lb average DINNER PORK SHOULDERS 199 179 249 MAPLE LEAF MAPLE LEAF a p HAM STEAKS SIDE BACON SCHNEIDER LINK BREAKFAST RED HOTS or 219 SAUSAGE ib 139 SKINLESS WIENERS

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